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2. G. micans, Welw. mss. Stems wide-climbing, angular, densely 
clothed with tawny silky hairs. Stipules lanceolate, deciduous. Petioles 
reaching 38—5 in. ; leaflets 8, papyraceous, obscurely grey-downy above, 
thinly clothed with adpressed persistent shining grey hairs below ; end 
one obovate, acute, reaching 5-6 in. long; petiolule 4~8 in.; lateral 
ones unequal-sided. Racemes copious, very lax, reaching 6—9 in. long, 
shortly peduncled. Pedicels very short. Calyx 1}—2 lines, densely 
silky ; teeth lanceolate, as long as the tube, upper two connate. Corolla 
reddish, slightly exserted. Pod linear, 15-18 lines long, slightly re- 
ie teg matted with adpressed grey hairs like the leaves below, 8—9- 
seeded. 
Lower Guinea. Highlands of Golungo Alto, Dr. Welwitsch! 
3. G. andongensis, Welw. mss. Stems wide-climbing, very slender, 
densely brown-velvety. Stipules minute lanceolate deciduous. Petioles 
12-15 lines, densely velvety ; leaflets 3, coriaceous, shining and gla- 
brescent above, thinly clothed with adpressed grey hairs below ; end 
one obovate-oblong blunt, reaching 2-3 in. long; petiolule 14-2 lines; 
lateral ones also blunt, slightly unequal-sided. Racemes short, 
peduncled, very lax, 6-12 in. long. Pedicels rary short. Calyx 2 lines, 
tubular, densely brown-velvety ; teeth linear-lanceolate, as long as 
tube. Corolla pale reddish, slightly exserted. Ovary linear, silky, 
multiovulate. Bod unknown. 
Lower Guinea. Highlands of Pungo Andongo, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
4. G. Petitiana, Schweinf. mss. Stems woody, slender, oe kes 
branched, wide-climbing, finely brown-silky. Stipules small, anceo- 
late. Petioles an inch long, silky; leaves digitately trifoliolate, the 
central leaflet ovate, 2-8 in. long, the lateral ones unequal-sided, thick 
and coriaceous, upper surface thinly silky, lower glaucous and densely 
grey-silky, veins raised and ferruginous. Flowers in lax or dense 
stalked axillary racemes finally 6-9 in. long. Pedicels a line long. 
Calyx 21-3 lines, densely brown-silky ; teeth linear, reaching halfway 
down, the lowest longer than the others. Corolla red, half as long 
again as the calyx. Pod 1-1} in. long, 2 lines broad, linear, nearly 
straight, densely clothed with spreading brown silky hairs, 5—7-seeded, 
slightly torulose.—Johnia Petitiana, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 210, t. 40. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Petit! 
5. G. hedysaroides, Willd. Sp. Pl. iii. 1060. Stems shrubby at 
the base, wide-climbing, terete, pubescent. Stipules small, setaceous. 
Petiole 3-1 in. long, slender, pubescent; leaflets three, subcoriaceous, 
oblong, the central one 14-2 in. long, by about half as broad, rounded 
at both ends, apex emarginate, its petiolule 4 in. long, lateral ones 
Similar but rather smaller, upper surface glabrescent, the lower densely 
adpressed grey-silky. Flowers 4-6 together in short-stalked congested 
axillary racemes. Sites setaceous. Calyx silky, 3 lines deep, the 
teeth linear, reaching two-thirds of the way down. orolla pale red, 
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